Climbers Quotes - Page 2

• The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.

  Pat Ament

  Climbing, Ideas, Would Be

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• I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.

  Warren G. Harding

  Climbing, Venture, Qualified

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• My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing. Figure out what works for you, what turns you on, what gives you the greatest amount of energy and feeling of satisfaction.

  Galen Rowell

  Passion, Climbing, People

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• Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside the self.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Climbing, Self, Advice

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• The strongest climbers aren’t always the happiest or nicest to be around; neither are some of them coming from the purest motivation. Climbing another V17 is not going to save the world! This activity of 'rock climbing' is merely one of many ways to exist, pass the time, and evolve and grow from one moment to the next. That’s all.

  Chris Sharma

  Motivation, Rocks, Climbing

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• In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor to over come obstacles of the way, the soul trains itself to conquer difficulties; and the spectacle of the vast horizon, which from the highest crest offers itself on all sides to the eyes, raises his spirit to the Divine Author and Soverign of Nature.

  Pope Pius XI

  Eye, Air, Effort

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• Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

  Robert Greene

  Patience, Fall, Ambition

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• But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to sturdier and steadier steps, till that other legend of the rough places fulfils itself at last; "per aspera ad astra;" over steep ways to the stars.

  William Croswell Doane

  Life, Motivational, Stars

  "Addresses to the Graduating Classes of St. Agnes School".

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• When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Heart, Grieving

  Khalil Gibran, “Friendship IXX”

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• I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Air, One Day

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• We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.

  Steve House

  Sports, Training, Done

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Putin did not head the KGB, never has. Putin was a mid-level nobody there. Putin was one of those guys in the KGB who was a climber. He was forever hoping, climbing that ladder, trying to get to the head spot.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kgb, Climbing, Forever

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Historically, many of the great names in alpine climbing seemed to have just gone climbing as training. In fact, the model alpinist has often portrayed himself in literature as a half-crazed nonconformist, living life on the edge every moment he's sober enough to climb. It is true that amazing feats of skill and daring have been accomplished using this rather random approach. For some climbers that "life on the edge" approach may be the only way they can accomplish these feats, but there are far better methods to prepare for the challenges of alpine climbing.

  Steve House

  Live Life, Skills, Names

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I think my strengths perhaps are that I'm determined. I may not be the best climber in the world, but I do like to sort of succeed and so that tends to drive me on, as it were, and I don't give up too easily.

  Edmund Hillary

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Thinking

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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• As climbers, we need to learn to be good stewards of the land and take care of these places where we are spending so much time.

  Chris Sharma

  Land, Needs, Care

  "Natural Born Climber: Chris Sharma". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• In no organized sport do the participants have to endure days of struggle just to get to the starting line of their event. The option to drop out of a race that is going badly does not exist for a climber halfway up a big route, and may entail more risk than pushing on. A team of volunteers will not be waiting with warm blankets and hot food at the next bivy ledge. When you reach the summit, having overcome the challenges that inspired you for months or years, you are not at the finish line. The race is not over. You can't relax and let your guard down like a normal athlete.

  Steve House

  Sports, Team, Struggle

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I'm a rock climber. I really specialize in doing first ascents, and finding new routes outside, as opposed to doing competitions. I focus my energy on going out into nature and finding these new climbs. For me, it's not just this athletic pursuit - it's a really creative, artistic thing of finding these amazing formations out in nature, and mixing that with this high level of athleticism.

  Chris Sharma

  Rocks, Focus, Creative

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• I think everybody has a dream of flying at least once in their life. For me, it's been over and over a recurring dream. It's mostly that. That desire to be as free as the birds, to be unhindered. I started off as - and am still - a free solo climber. So being in the air is a huge fear of mine. So there's a combination of going toward my fear as well as being fascinated with the air.

  Dean Potter

  Dream, Thinking, Air

  Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com

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• Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We chose 50 from a list of about 120. Only a torturer will ever pry loose from our lips the names of those other 70 classics.

  Steve Roper

  Funny, Climbing, Names

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• Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Dumb, Answers, Stairs

  "Greg Gutfeld's advice for grads". www.foxnews.com. May 19, 2015.

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• The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.

  Lincoln Hall

  Wisdom, Heart, Adventure

  Lincoln Hall (2008). “Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest”, p.239, Penguin

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• In this way the climber faces his second deadly threat. The first is naturally the risk of killing the. Second is immersed in the deceitfulness of mental and believing that you are worth as much as the public image.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Believe, Climbing, Risk

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• Never let failure discourage you. Every time you get to the base of a mountain (literal or metaphorical), you're presented with a new opportunity to challenge yourself, to push your limits beyond what you thought possible, to learn from climbers on the trail ahead of you, and to take in some amazing views. Your performance on the mountain you climbed last week or last month or last year doesn't matter - because it's all about what you are doing right now.

  Alison Levine

  Opportunity, Views, Years

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• The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Goal, Effort, Matter

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• I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

  Edmund Hillary

  Successful, Thinking, Mature

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